A new federal facial recognition system is set to be rolled out next year as part of a new Australia-wide identity system to replace myGov, which will link services across different governments and private providers.
The facial recognition system is to be part of a "liveness" test. Citizens will need to establish they are a physically present human being and the service is not being spoofed by a malicious computer bot or someone pretending to be the user.
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